no more difficult steps
no more tortuous excursions to the window, the toilet, the door
no more strong determined fragile tired tired smiles
her life has shrunk to this room
this bed
absorbed now in the process of each breath
she is so preoccupied with the business of dying
she is too busy for living
she
the primary she
my beginning and ending
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thick love like wading through honey without the sweet goldenness through mud but without the soothing coolness tapioca? not slimy - diff...
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paper cotton leather linen lace teeth (skin) and fingernails scraping teetering on the sharpest edge of hope and disappointment ground(?) w...
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1927-2002 How terribly strange to be orphaned. Too young a word for someone my age. Sudden yet hardly unforeseen in the gym Wednesday, gone ...
1 comment:
oh. tingles.
i know exactly what you mean. that confinement to the bed, and the realisation that it is her deathbed. that awful knowing.
oh letty.
sorry i have only just seen these
x
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